Studio Project: Gels

Choose one area of focus - Staple City, Product Photography, or Portraits.

You will use our color gels to alter the mood of the light and bring a new look to traditional subjects.

How can you use artificial light to enhance your idea?How can color, light, and texture affect a photograph?How does the intensity of light affect the subject?What emotional qualities can be enhance by color?Can you define mood by how you light the portrait?

Passion PROJECT

You will create a series of work that is interesting to you and that pushes your technical and creative skills within photography.

Decide what you want to focus on - your choice! This is your opportunity to focus on something you love that may not be a part of our curriculum.

You will have to turn in:Concept/Mood Board (where are you getting your inspiration) - due 1/29Contract on Project (posted in Google Classroom) - due 1/29Contact sheet of 24+ images3-5 images for your series (dependent on technical complexity)

Due on Friday, 4/6

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Cinemagraphs

GOAL: To create a cinemagraph with your own photography/video and understand when this type of imagery is most effective.

Your image will look rustic, so find a subject matter that would suit the look

Adding a rough film edge border or Polaroid edge may help the effect

You must be patient when taking of the paper

Think about adding color after transfering the print for added "antique" look

BOKEH

PROJECT: TURN IN TWO EDITED HOLIDAY IMAGES THAT SHOW BOKEH

Bokeh comes from the Japanese word boke (ボケ), which means "blur" or "haze", or boke-aji, the "blur quality." Bokeh is pronounced BOH-Kə or BOH-kay.

Bokeh is defined as “the effect of a soft out-of-focus background that you get when shooting a subject, using a fast lens, at the widest aperture, such as f/2.8 or wider.”

Simply put, bokeh is the pleasing or aesthetic quality of out-of-focus blur in a photograph.​Although bokeh is actually a characteristic of a photograph, the lens used determines the shape and size of the visible bokeh. Usually seen more in highlights, bokeh is affected by the shape of the diaphragm blades (the aperture) of the lens. A lens with more circular shaped blades will have rounder, softer orbs of out-of-focus highlights, whereas a lens with an aperture that is more hexagonal in shape will reflect that shape in the highlights. = Nikon USA

Fear & Phobia Project

Why do people fear things? What evolutionary and psychological elements are at play?

How can you communicate a fear or phobia in a clear, creative manner?

This project will introduce you to the idea of MIXED MEDIA, or using other medias besides pixels and screens.

We will print your image onto a special transparency and then back the image with color, texture, and/or text to add to the complexity of the work.

Fear & Phobia Reflection Questions1. What was your fear/phobia?2. What visual clues did you use to communicate your message?3. What type of composition did you use? How did this help add interest to the photo?4. What is your background? How does it enhance the meaning of the photo?5. After looking at everyone's images, how successful were you in this project? What grade would you give yourself and why?

Identity Project

An individual’s identity is made up of many different factors.

Consider. What is important to you? How would you describe yourself? Write ten words that are central to your identity and ten words that are the opposite of your identity. These words can be anything, including social categories such as ethnicity and gender, adjectives describing your personality, issues or beliefs you care about, and your favorite pastimes and activities.

Research/Create. Make a mind map/brainstorm sketch of your ideas. Once approved, then start creating a mood board of possible approaches to your project.

Project: Create 2 self portraits. You have some options on how to create this:

1) One will represent you (however you want to portray your "true" self). and one will be the opposite of you (either make a character that is not like you OR contrasting yourself in an environment that you don't normally "belong").

HDR Project

​HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. The dynamic range of a scene tells you how different the brightest parts of the scene (the highlights) are from the darkest parts of the scene (the shadows). The human eye can see a much greater dynamic range than any camera, including the camera of your iPhone.

While your cell phone will do all the HDR work for you, we will learn how to create HDR images through the SLR camera and Photoshop.

You will need to take 5 exposures (one underexposed by two stops, one underexposed by one stop, one exposed correctly, one overexposed by one stop, one overexposed two stops) to get the full dynamic range. Tripods are a MUST to line up the scene.

Top Row (l. to r.) The bracket of five exposures: [+2EV] [+1EV] [0] [-1EV] [-2EV]; with the final HDR image.

2016-17

Mini-Concentration

Series: How do I create a series of work (3-5 images) that connect around a central idea?

​Requirements:Mood Board and sketches/notes for your proposalContact sheet of your shoot(s)3-5 final images Reflection statement1. What is the idea behind your series? Were you inspired by another photographer? Explain.2. How did you communicate your idea? What visual cues or symbols did you use to help the viewer understand what you are trying to say/show?3. What element connects your series? Explain.4. What worked well in your series? Explain.5. Why would artists work in a series?

Introduction and review of different artists’ series or sets of work & Research/Brainstorming

Observe and participate in the lesson on series/sets of work. You will review and analyze examples from other artists to help formulate your own ideas for starting your project.

Conduct research to find a theme that will unify the artworks you produce for your project. This theme could represent a specific genre, a technique used by one of your favorite artists, or represent a social issue. You will use various resources (e.g., search the Internet or consult books in the library) to help you develop an outline for your plans and sketching. You will need to address how each artwork represents the theme you’ve selected.

Revision and submission of final project proposal

You will have time at the beginning of class to receive final feedback or ideas from small peer groups or teacher.

You will spend this day refining and finalizing your project proposal.

Turn in your final project plan to your teacher.

Studio Days

You will have five or more days to produce your artworks.

Frequently turn and talk to your classmates and teacher about possible revisions and modifications to your approach to planning and creating.

Remember to use your class time wisely and to do your best work

5+: Present work to class for critique

Upload your images to Dropbox and on your website.

You will participate in a gallery walk where you will review your classmates’ work and take part in a class-wide discussion and critique.

You will provide your classmates with written descriptive feedback on their work as well as analyze your own work in writing.

You will write a reflective statement to add to your website about your series.

Studio lights/Projections

How can you use artificial light to enhance your idea?

Project: After researching technical and creative ideas, you will produce two portraits that use artificial light to help convey an idea or mood.

How can color, light, and texture affect a portrait?How does the intensity of light affect the human form?What emotional qualities can be enhance by text, color, and texture?Can you define identity by how you light the portrait?

LiGHT IN FILM AND ART

Project: After researching an artist or filmmaker, create a series of images that use the same lighting techniques as that person.

You have two options:Imitate the film stills or artwork (an exact copy or a parody)​Use the lighting techniques with your own subject matter​What mood will your photos convey? How does lighting help tell that emotion/mood?​How did you use the techniques of your artist/film maker to inspire your images?

HAirspray Project

TECHNICAL Light study

Goal: To create a comparison of the issues presented in the musical Hairspray to contemporary times.

Project: A series of 3 images dealing with a chosen issue that is a component of Hairspray. How do these issues play out today?

Research:Brainstorm list of issues in musicalResearch images dealing with your chosen topicComparison - Is this issue still the same today? How is it different?

Project Requirements:Research on your topic and how it relates to HairsprayContact Sheet3 edited imagesReflection

GOAL: How does light affect the representation of the subject?

Capture images using the following light:

Sunrise or Sunset

Mid Day (bright, harsh shadows)

Cloudy (soft, diffused light)

Window Light

Shade/Overhang during day

Low Light (will need tripod)

Extra Credit:

Flash (we only have 2 flashes to check out)

Setting the white balance to cloudy for early morning/late afternoon light

Your choice of subject

You will turn in a contact sheet of all your images and post your strongest 3 images to your website.

​REFLECTION QUESTIONS:​1. How does light affect the image? Talk about a few of your examples as evidence.2. Which one is your strongest image? Why?​3. Which image do you wish you could redo? Why?

Identity Project

An individual’s identity is made up of many different factors.

Consider. What is important to you? How would you describe yourself? Write ten words that are central to your identity and ten words that are the opposite of your identity. These words can be anything, including social categories such as ethnicity and gender, adjectives describing your personality, issues or beliefs you care about, and your favorite pastimes and activities.

Project: Create 2 self portraits. One will represent you (however you want to portray your "true" self). and one will be the opposite of you (either make a character that is not like you OR contrasting yourself in an environment that you don't normally "belong"). Please try to use a DSLR to shoot the images - cameras are available on a nightly basis.